05/26/2023
When nature takes over! 🤯 Read the description about all of them🤕
1-Built between 477 and 495 AD, Sigiriya was briefly the capital of the Sinhalese kingdom. When the Sinhalese dynasty collapsed due to internal conflict, as well as invasions from India and colonial powers, former administrative centers were abandoned. As the former capital fell into disuse, the jungle began to take over; its location forgotten by all but the residents of nearby Villages.
2-The French assumed control of the region in 1881 and quickly set about unearthing Thamugadi. To this day, it remains one of a few Roman cities to be completely excavated.
3-The former center of the once-mighty Khmer Empire, Angkor is a 155-square-mile complex containing 70 ruined temples. Once you witness the grandeur of Angkor Wat the largest religious structure ever built it seems inconceivable that this sprawling site was ever lost to the outside world. Yet that's exactly what happened. In the 15th century, when the Khmer Empire declined, the site was abandoned and nature took over.
4-Popularly known as the "Spanish Stonehenge," the Dolmen of Guadalperal is a megalithic monument erected between 4,000 and 7,000 years ago near the modern-day city of Cáceres. Believed to have been used as a cemetery and temple, it once featured a series of tall standing stones known as menhirs, topped by horizontal slabs to form an enclosed tomb known as a dolmen.
5-1912, the town of Kolmanskop had been born. That year, the area was responsible for digging up one million carats of diamonds more than a tenth of the world's total annual production.
6-At the bottom of a deep canyon in the Italian coastal town of Sorrento, 30 miles south of Naples, stand the overgrown ruins of a Medieval tech hub.